Purpose

Across the nation, students are going off to college during September and moving into residence halls, fraternities, sororities, and off-campus housing. It is a critical time for young people who are living away from home, many for the first time. It is also an important time for these students to be educated about fire safety. The American Society of Safety Engineers reported that approximately 1,700 fires occur in collegiate housing each year – on and off campus – and about 150 fires occur each year in fraternity/sorority houses.It also noted the following:

·Smoke alarms operated in 79 percent of dormitory fires.However many people ignored the alarms as they thought they were false alarms.